Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

Topics

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Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.

Jenny Han

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I feel young every day.

Jennifer Aniston

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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Andrew Wiles

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I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

John Philip Sousa

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It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

Stormzy

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When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.

Tom Perez

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I'm running for Congress to reverse Obama's big government policies, to be faithful to the principles on which our nation was founded, and to make members of Congress play by the same rules as the rest of us.

Ron DeSantis

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The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.

Masayoshi Son

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All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.

Mat Kearney

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My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.'

Mary Kay Andrews

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I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

Michael Nutter

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In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

Michael Mandelbaum

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